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PC BUSHED 1~ THE IX TERE T OF OTTER BEL ' COLLEGE WESTERVILLE, OH I O , OCTOBER 21, 1918.
VOL. 2.
No. 2.
SECO D GAME OF CUPID WEEPS AT DECREE-NEWS OF MASQUERADEAND SEASON LOST · QUARANTINE MET WITH VARIED EMOTIONS MINSTREL GIVEN 1 I
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Prexy anno un ced it co~lly, candid- 1upon _the empt~ chairs in their cla s 1 1 Denison Wins From O tterbein Satur- ly. clearly, ca lmly. wit!, his usual flow , room. No hance f~r a week, may- ' Quara ntined Girls Entertain Them. be more, to make their victims groan s elves Saturday evening in da y at Granville-Score · of explanatory eloquence. To him O · · I M One-Sided. and raise pitiful eyes as the nex t I1 ngma anner. I the quarantine was merely an _an- t)ve_nty pages ·are as~igned; no oppor1 O . C. PLAYS SCRAPPY GAME nouncement, rather unusual, tartln~g. , tun 1ty to call on Nl1ss - - - - - to HELEN BOVEE,INTERLOCUTOR and mom entou , of course, but only recite when he knows the lady" mind 11·1e r bo Y out ide the Endmen Bring Down the HouseCamp, Melkus, Meyers, Burget, and an announcement. Did he realize is_ wit I1 ti1e soc _ Smith Do Bes_t Playing foi:: what . varied sceues, o m.e delightful. window. Tru ly. the faculty must feel Audi ence Masked Beyond O tterbein. ot her dismal. wo uld follow in its that the e clay are wa tecl. Recognition. . ·or to pleasanter scenes do we wake? Knight , ladi es, ghosts, coons, and Den irnn defeated tterbein"s foot· t . \\' !1a t o f chorus g'1r! s all formed a friendly Fir t and ovenvhclmi ngly , there turn '-,,ut to m ore po1gnan , . · 1·s h ecI incomes · ball men in a s ·ra pJJY o-a m e atur- w:u, glee and gladness in the fem:!' e t , e d 1mrn of th e 111e r- a11d1·e11ce to gr•'et the Black Cat Min~ day aft crn ~on on th D eni so n !i ~Id p rti o n o f th e popufation. It \\'a S a:1 c I1an t s :nee · th e g1r · I no Io nge1- w alk strel Troupe in the librarv, of ochby a . core of :11 to 0. It eemecl t hat in\'itation to stop in the mid t of a t 11e s t ree t of '\\"e ster ' ,1·11e?• •N o ra11 Hall. Saturday night. after kttin~ _D~ni on_ o~ce takt' f ie d:sa trous '"math" problem and have d~ubt th ey sit on cracker boxe . turn Helen Bovee, the interlocutor. aid• adly · and murmur to ed bv an appea 1 f rom th e h'1g h - I their head · her full dre s suit and white kid .lead Otterbcrn tound it 1mpo _ ible .1. . t. J 1a goo d t11ne, m<luce th. em lo. gran t an deserved glo\'e , succeeded in adding a litt 1e . •a _m ~t1<.:,.e 2r. J?owe rs _to forget a1)Ou t t h e p111-1os- themseh·e that they never and begm all ?'·er_ agam. l·o r a .- , phy of ed ucati o n, to fo ll ow a bunch th is boycott. And t_he poor post dignity to a very hi gh spirited. hilar though O'.terbem did some ~f ~ l" of girl down t:o the creek w ith a office men! They must be heart-s_ick iou compa ny. finest playmg he has d one ~ht · ·': guitar and ru t ie through the dry I wtd1 - loneso1:1e 1~ ess _w hen ~vemng The endrpen, Abraham Agne son, Demso_n wa able to c.:o re Olk , !~aves. Coc hra_n Hall was gi~dy with b~ings uo rqppmg girls askmg for \Vright, Rastus Meryl Black, ambo Beatrice Fi her, and Bones Fay Mor to~1chdown 111 each quart~r except tlle I joy; instead· of bqok-soakeq b rain . their letters. t h~~d when two w e re r eg1ste~ed. there was running' through the hal ls, .,A.nd last of all comes the saddest ri son, certainly let their genius burnI he most spectacu lar playmg of the lots of musi c, and tableaux in the din- picture. Littl e did Prexy know how as brightly as their faces shone. game was done by Camp,. Me l~us ,ng room. Coi:liran_ Hall breakfasts Cupid wept when ·he made the -re- Their spmts never drooped-they and Burget who cu~ l_oose wi th qu'.~e 'an hour later now and is · co mfortably quest "no dates"! The harv e t moo n cracked their best joke s, laughed until an assortmc~t o f bnlh_ant plays _w~ 11 e reading stories when the chapel beli flood the bridge with its silvery light the roof tr embled , and applauded vig Meyer , actmg captam . and Smith, o und for th e men. I in vain. The October sun SQ reads _a orou ly for every member, whether of the veteran of last year· team, workBut what of the professors? lnJ- 1romantic haze over the field and their own or of ome one else's pro ed with th e o ld time pirit and con- po .!i,ible as jt _ i to know the tru e af~i1g the creek to no_avail. Romance duction. The fact that ther e were no .,;,'tit ,l" ;,. " 1· ~:. ~::.: .:~ <11rccuon ot tnc.r tnougn ts, we can 1111- h..;, IJccfl mp1,c:o HI cne lJ Uo. Ctll:ores wa no t du · lO any l!lc k oc The lack of Otterbein rooters no agin e with what de pair and di may Ju st an announcement, but who effort on thei r part, for th ey supdoubt had much to do with the piling their o ul are filled as they look out knows when it influence will cease? ported their end nobly and were four up of the core by Denison. Many of the "swellest nigger " that ever tudents had planned to go and ha d came fr o m the land of cotton. it not been fo r th e quar a ntin e th e A FOURTH 9F PLEDGES PAID ment o f the college. After the lu sty singing of ome The only rea on that the cie nce team would ha,·e been encouraged by popular ''Dixie" tun es, the inter locu · · roote rs. A Endowment Money Comi"ng 1·n Rap- Building ha not Jjeen commenced, is a crowd of enthus1ast1c tor uddenly rose and gave voice to, · · that the government put a rest ri cit wa . the members of the team were idly-Science Building to be Erect the following !in s: tion on the construction of new buildcompell ed ·to gi\'e their own ye ll , "Poor o ld daddy Chloe, ed When Government Permits. ings during the pe riod of the war. ing their own ongs and let Mana Has had hi cup of, oe, Otterbein's drive for $400,000 was L"n der normal co ndition s, the long Hi s feelings you will know. ger F r ed Gray do the s nak e dance. for building would be well By the time the next game is play- complete~ at 1~:59 p. m .. Jun e 1O' hoped under way, because th e fir t money When he mourns for old Black Joe," ( Con tinued on page fi\'e.) 19 18. At that minute, just before paid in was set a ide for its construc and amid a breathless hu h, a bent (Co ntinued on page five.) midJ1ight, o n the la t day of the cam- tio n. The new building will occupy paign, the last pledge wa made nea rly twice as much floor pace a s Otterbein Graduate Ga ins · h · th t Lamber.t Hall. and three tim e that of Lieutenant Farrar Is put O tter 1)e m over e op. 1o ld Saum Hall. The ite has not w 111 c Glo ry W ith Army in France But th ose we r e only pledges. It is been definite ly decided up on, but the O tterbein Commander Th fo ll o wing item regarding Lieu- intere ting to kn ow how much of the' b uilding wi ll probably be located at Fir t Li utenanr Enrmon 13. Far ten3:nt Orren 1. Bandeen, '11. appear- 400,000 pledged has actuall y been the northwe t corner of the college rar is the new commandant of the d in the Columbus Citizen la t Tue - paid in.to the co ll ege trea ury. The campus. 011 the old athletic field. Thi military unit at Ott rhein "o llege. da,y~ written by C. C. Lyon, the trea urer's book how that up to will be a plendid place to carry on He and Mr . Farrar arri,·e<l in \\' e5zen' pecial reporter with Per hing' eptember fir t, there had been paid the work of the general cience, do- ten·ille Monday e, cning and LicuArm~: "Lieutenant O._ I. Bandeen of into the tre~ ury in bond $ 19,"550.00, mestic science and art department of tenant Farrar a. sumed command Bowling Green and h1s toke mor- in \Var avmg tamp $1.19-L,1 and the college, leaving Lambert Hall en- Tuesday mornin ". tar crew have been commended by in ca h $79,725.00, making a total of tirely for music. Lieutenant . M. Ilrew ter, who their colonel for the good work they 100,469.51. Roughly e ti mated. there . · soon a the go,·ernment re tric- i11cc the opening of college ha · b •en did in the t . :-Iihiel fight. They were has been paid ince eptember fir t, I tions are lifted. the new building will in c mmand, has been relieved of 1 rushed up in the front line to take over 1,000. o that, in round num- be commenced, becau e the blue duty here and ·ent to Kenyon Col a few hot· at a German battery that bers. it may be aid that over one- print hav e been pra ~tically adopted, lcge at Gambier, to which he wilI was quite trouble ome. Their sec- fourth of the pledges had been paid, and there -is no other ob tacle in the gi\'e hi - entlrc attention . A i ting ond hot literally blew the ground o_ut in le . than three month after the way. \\'hen the cience department Lieutenant Farrar are Lieutenants from under the German and while I campaign clo ed. i moved to the new building, old \\'. P. Johnson and George Miller. the enemy were picking them elve Of the total amount pledged, aum Hall will be remodeled and The latter is an expert mark man and up Bandcen and his crowd ru hed 300,000 is to be made into a perma- beautified, probably tuccoed, and sup- will gi\'e the young soldiers their in over and captured the whole outfit." nent endowment, the income to be plied with new fitting and equipment truction in ritle practice. Reader of the Tan and Cardinal will u ed for the upbuilding of the school. for the c.. rrying on of other college Lieutenant Farrar comes to Otter remember that Lieutenant Bandeen The other part i to be u ed in the act1v1tte . Let u wait and hope bein from Manhattan ollege, • rcw received the Croix de Guerre la t con truction of a cience Building cheerfully for Otterbein's new cience York, where he ha been directing spring for ,·alient ervice. adequate to the need of that depart- Building! tudent military operations.
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